Car-washing apparatus



1,614,213 s, L.. SMITH CAR WASHI NG APPARATUS Jani 11 1927.

Filed Sept. 2l, 1925 Wg y @g/OWMMUKW? Patented Jan. 11, 1927.

PATENT OFFICE.

SIDNEY L. SMITH, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-WASHING- APPARATUS.

Application led September 21, 1925. Serial No. 57,572.

The invention described herein relates to certain improvements in apparatus for washing automobiles and has for its object a portable apparatus which may be laid on a floor or street, the car rolled into position thereon, and jets of water directed against the underside of the car, mud guards, etc. The invention is hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

10 In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, Fig. l is a top plan view of the improved apparatus in operative position; Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same; Figs. 3 and 4 are sectional views 15 on planes indicated respectively by the lines III-III and IV-IV Fig. l; Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the apparatus folded for transportation or storage; and F ig. 6 is a sectional detail illustrating a suitable con- 20 struction of joint between the feed pipe and the perforated pipes.

The improved apparatus consists of two lines of rails l spaced suitable distances apart and having lengths preferably somewhat greater than the lengths of the cars to be washed. These rails or tracks consists of a plurality of sections adapted to be so connected as to ensure the alinen'ient of the sections when laid out for use. It is preferred that adjacent sections should be so hinged together, as indicated at 2, as to permit of their being folded together as shown in Fig. 5. A plurality of pipes 3 are arranged transversely of the rails to which the pipes are so connected as to maintain the lines of rails in suitable spaced relation. It is preferred that the rails should be H-shaped in cross section and when so constructed the o pipes 3 are passed through the holes in the flanges on each side of the rails. These pipes which are perforated, are connected by suitable joints indicated at fi to sections 5 of a feed pipe adapted to be connected by a 45 hose 6 or other suitable means to a source of supply of water under pressure. The sections 5 of the feed pipe are hinged together in any suitable manner as indicated at 7 the axes of movement of the pipe sections being in alineinent with axes of the hinges 2 between the rail sections.

It will be understood that a sufficient number of pipes 3 are provided and are so perforated that jets of water will be directed to practically all parts of the under surfaces 5 of the car including the mud guards.

I claim herein as my invention:

1. An apparatus for washing cars having in combination a pair of rails adapted for the reception of the wheels of a car to be washed, each consisting of a plurality of sections, a plurality of pipes mounted on the rail sections and perforated to direct jets of water against the underside of cars supported by the rails and means for connecting the pipes carried by the rail sections to a water supply under pressure.

2. An apparatus for washing cars having in combination two lines of rails consistingl of a plurality of pairs of spaced sections, a plurality of perforated pipes arranged transversely of and carried by the members of each pair of rail sections7 means for holding the several pairs of sections in suitable relation for the reception of car, a plurality of pipe sections adapted to be connected to form a continuous feed line the feed line sections being connected respectively to the perforated pipes carried by the rail sections.

3. An apparatus for washing cars having in combination two lines of rails consisting fof a plurality of pairs of sections, the sections of adjacent pairs being united by hinged joints, a plurality of perforated j pipes arranged transversely of and carried bv the pairs of rail sections, a plurality of pipe sections connected by a hinged joint to form a feed line, said feed line sections being connected respectively to the peru forated pipes carried by the rail sections.

4. A portable apparatus for washing cars consisting of a plurality of units movable relative one to the other, each unit consist ing of a pair of rails and a plurality of per- 9 forated pipes carried by the rails of each unit and a feed pipe section connected to the perforated pipes of each unit, means for maintaining the rail sections of adjacent units in operative alinement and means for connecting the feed pipe sections of adjacent units.

In testimony whereofI have hereunto set my hand.

SIDNEY L. SMITH. 

